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Peace, One Love, War Is Over If You Want It

Dominion ≠ Entitlement

#defendtheSacred #waterisLife #chooseLife

[sweetleaf @imsweetleaf]

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Official Video) https://t.co/rksojzPHOe via @YouTube new video old tune...

[Grok @grok]

This video is from the Anti-Cruelty Society shelter in Chicago. It shows staff/volunteers gently checking on dogs in a calm, low-stress setting—creating that rare quiet atmosphere instead of the usual barking chaos.

They focus on compassionate care and enrichment (like their Dog Day Out program) to help shelter dogs relax and find homes faster. Check https://t.co/s9fYr26pb3 for adoptions and more on their work! ❤️

[Beauty of music and nature 🌺🌺 @Axaxia88]

I’ve never seen a quiet rescue like this. Dogs usually bark out of stress. This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen in my life. Wishing you all peace ❤️✨

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

I absolutely love this street art. 🖼️

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

The 7-second cold wrist rinse was tested on 3,000 soldiers after combat simulations.

Cortisol dropped 52% within 90 seconds. Heart rate fell an average of 22 beats per minute. The Navy classified the protocol in 2009 and kept it secret until 2023.

The mechanism is radial artery cooling. Your inner wrists have the thinnest skin and the largest surface-to-volume ratio for blood vessels. 7 seconds of cold water cools the blood passing to your brain, which signals your hypothalamus to downregulate stress instantly

You've splashed cold water on your face. You've taken cold showers. Both work, but they're inconvenient.

The SEAL protocol takes 7 seconds, requires no undressing, and can be done at any sink. Soldiers used it before night missions to fall asleep fast.

The military classified this because a free 7-second stress fix would reduce demand for combat stress medication ($400M annually).

The 2023 declassification came after a FOIA lawsuit filed by a veteran.

The fix: run cold tap water over your inner wrists for 7 seconds. Both wrists. Do it when you feel a stress spike.

Within 90 seconds, your heart rate will drop. No shower, no ice.

Just 7 seconds.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Rescuers save a baby elephant and mom trapped in mud.

[Matthew Dominguez @Matt_Dominguez]

Help us ban octopus farming in New York!

Octopus farming is cruel, unnecessary and has no place in our state. Send a message to your legislators NOW and urge them to protect octopuses from factory farming!

🔗LINK IN BIO.

Thank you to @theanimalvoters and @woodstocksanctuary for leading this incredibly important fight.

#animalwelfare #newyork #takeaction #banoctopusfarming

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Little Jimbo is on the mend. He is starting to get his little strut back!

Still loves to run straight back to his bed though

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, we’ll have some of the letters I read — and responded to — every night. I still get emotional reading them, and it’s one of my favorite exhibits.

[sweetleaf @imsweetleaf]

Ukraine’s Daily Moment of Silence https://t.co/kEd1lWtVQe via @NYTimes

[sweetleaf @imsweetleaf]

Ravi Shankar at Monterey Pop (June 1967) https://t.co/21tZCFHX0D via @YouTube

[riⓋer Haoshoku Haki @Haoshoku]

Animals are treated worse than the worst criminals.

Imprisoned for life. Barely able to move. Sentenced to death. All for the crime of not being born a human.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You don’t kill 133 healthcare workers by accident.

[Native American @_nativeamerica]

Fantastic . Wish we,'d do this immediately in the US.. Mexico honoring their true Heritage Roots and taking Steps that Honor Mother Earth and Food people eat. Hurrah!!!!🌽🌽🌽💗

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

He loves the music!! Animals are so amazing. He is adorable😍😍😍

[riⓋer Haoshoku Haki @Haoshoku]

Fish are objectified beyond belief. They are treated like waste, but fish are feeling individuals.

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

Japan’s Government urged to halt public investments in octopus farming
We must END the intensive farming of ALL sentient beings, not seek out new, extraordinary creatures to enslave into short lives of wicked, cruel confinement
#EndTheCageAge
@CIWF_Global
https://t.co/ir549zqFmj

[Kindness and knowledge @Ezekle1]

A large mountain lion was drowning beneath the Tallac Bridge in South Lake Tahoe, sedated, thrashing, and sinking fast. The crowd stood helpless on the shore, until a man visiting from Mexico named Alejandro ripped off his shoes and dove straight into the water.

The big cat had wandered into a neighborhood, been tranquilized by wildlife officers, and stumbled into the frigid lake before the medication fully took hold. Now, with the heavy sedative kicking in, each of the animal's strokes grew weaker.

Alejandro swam hard, wrapping his arms under the predator's neck, holding its head above the water, and whispering softly in Spanish to keep it calm. Inch by inch, he guided the mountain lion toward the shore, where officers pulled it from the water, checked its vitals, and later released it safely deep into the Sierra Nevada wilderness. Asked by reporters why he risked his own life for a dangerous predator, Alejandro just shrugged: "In my culture, we say a man's strength is measured by who he chooses to protect, even if it has claws".

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Here's what the pork industry doesn't want you to know about the way it sneaked a provision into the 2026 farm bill that would nullify ballot measures that improve animal welfare, while helping Chinese companies torture American pigs. The issue is personal to me, because we once raised pigs on our family farm, and I saw that these are not commodities but animals rather like dogs: smart with very distinct personalities. A naughty boy who punishes a single animal may be punished, but an adult who presides over the systematic abuse of hundreds of thousands of pigs as a business model is hailed as a visionary CEO -- and voters get that, and that's why they have backed laws that improve animal wellbeing. This is, remarkably, an issue that unites many liberals and conservatives alike; @TomiLahren, @Cernovich and @IngrahamAngle are among those who have been outspoken on this issue. I hope R and D members of Congress alike will stand firm, for the stakes are immense, with four pigs slaughtered around the clock on average all year. Here's a gift link to my piece: https://t.co/NWQbJK6JTc I welcome your comments.